We're organizing a new CARTA symposium this November 7 on "Ancient DNA: New Revelations"! We have an amazing lineup of speakers who will showcase the biggest discoveries in ancient DNA over the past 5 years - and offer a sneak peek of what's next. Mark your calendars and don't miss it!

Having the best time at the Stanford Fermented Food Conference! From kimchi to koji to sauerkraut, this was the tastiest conference I’ve ever attended! A big thank you to the Sonnenburg lab for organizing, and it was so great to see Rob Dunn and Rachel Dutton again!

And that’s a wrap! Congratulations to the entire ISBA community for a successful ISBA11!

Oh boy - we opened this year’s ISBA meetings in a Roman amphitheater!

The Warinner Group and collaborators having fun at ISBA11 in Torino, Italy!

We have a new article out in Cell! Learn more about plague in prehistoric livestock: "Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Ancient Yersinia pestis genome discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth sheds new light on a mysterious infectious disease that plagued prehistoric Eurasia. New research by @keyfm.bsky.social and @i-light-maka.bsky.social now published in @cellpress.bsky.social: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

New article in the Harvard Gazette about how we’re persevering despite funding cuts news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

I'll be presenting our research on ancient food fermentations at the upcoming Stanford Fermented Food Conference on September 4-5, 2025. Join us to learn more about our recent findings on Roman wine and ancient Himalayan beer! There will be yeast and LAB genomes! med.stanford.edu/nutrition/ev...

Warinner lab undergraduate researcher Juliet Garon recently presented her summer research that builds foundational knowledge for the use of protein mass spectrometry to understand human respiratory diseases and immune response before the antibiotic era. Congratulations Juliet!

Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

Postdoc James Fellows Yates has won the Dawn Field Award for Outstanding Contributions to Genomic Standards at this year’s Genomics Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Cambridge, UK! Congratulations, James! We couldn’t be more proud!

Want to learn more about the cutting edge of ancient microbial metagenomics and the evolutionary history of Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria? Join us this Thursday for I-Ting’s PhD defense on “Microbial evolution through the lens of metagenomics and paleogenomics”!

It's not every day you get to see the summer solstice sunset at a 7,000-year-old woodhenge! Yay for the Sonnenobservatorium in Goseck!

Just finished our summer retreat for the Paleobiotechnology research group at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology HKI. We had so much fun charting the future of ancient microbial genomes with the aim of developing better antimicrobial therapies for the future.

Our official photo from the Nobel Symposium - what a blast! It was so incredible to learn about all the amazing paleogenomics research happening right now!

It was so nice spending time with my colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology at our annual retreat at Ringberg Castle! What a treat!

A great news article in Science this week by Taylor Brown on the devastating effects of funding cuts by DOGE and the Trump Administration on American archaeology. www.science.org/content/arti...

Dental calculus is such a treasure trove! www.science.org/content/arti...

Grateful that the Max Planck Society is stepping up to support talented researchers whose careers have been derailed in the US www.reuters.com/world/us/max...

We got to see the Linnean type specimens!!!

It’s been a great Nobel Symposium!

It is so fun to get to hang out with the newest member of the National Academy Sciences!

Die US-Regierung will der Harvard Universität verbieten, weiterhin ausländische Studierende aufzunehmen. Was das für das wiss. Arbeiten dort bedeuten würde, darüber habe ich im Dlf mit @christinawarinner.bsky.social gesprochen, Anthropologie-Prof. in Harvard: www.deutschlandfunk.de/harvard-univ...

On my way to meet the Nobel Committee. My government may not value my research but I’m glad others do

Help save SAPIENS magazine! The Wenner-Gren Foundation, our funder, may decide to close the magazine in the coming weeks. But the Board of Trustees hasn't made its final decision. A letter from you could help! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

The Wenner Green is considering closing SAPIENS Magazine. This would be a huge loss to Anthropology! Please write the board in support of this dynamic and vital publication! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Now this www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Well I just lost all my NSF grants

I learned today that the NSF SBE conference I’m co-organizing in DC in eleven days has been cancelled. This seems to be related to he return of DOGE at the NSF: www.science.org/content/arti...

It was a pleasure to attend the first #APG2025 symposium at UNAM Juriquilla and to listen to great keynote lectures given by @christinawarinner.bsky.social and @scs22.bsky.social. A big thanks to @dbm003.bsky.social and @paleogenomics.bsky.social and their organizing committee 👏.

Hundred thousand strong turnout in Boston yesterday. Standing up for federal workers, universities, and international students

Congratulations to Melina Seabrook for successfully defending her PhD today!

Standing up for Science in the Warinner Lab!

Eating, pooping and drinking: archeological goldmines for paleogenomics, the topic of @christinawarinner.bsky.social #AGBTGM talk. Zooming into calcified layers of dental plaque for genomic sampling of the oral microbiomes of ancient humans.

So I was honored with the AAAS Sussman award for scientific contributions to anthropology AND I made the Sen.Ted Cruz all-star list of questionable projects that promote woke DEI and neo-marxist propaganda all in one week! www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

So excited to receive the Sussman Award for Scientific Contributions to Anthropology at the 2025 American Association for the Advancement of Science meetings!

Biologists, archaeologists, anthropologists, and paleontologists from 21 institutions call for greater international support of natural history and scientific infrastructure in Mongolia. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

Success! We’re now keeping the lights on in the lab!

I think I found away to keep the motion sensing lights on in the lab!

Check out our new research in NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes on the surprising patterns of oral streptococci variation in humans and the clues they encode for understanding human evolution and the recent impacts of oral hygiene. A big congratulations to Irina Velsko! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So great to meet up with the team in Leipzig!

Check out our new commentary on strategies for improving ancient DNA data archiving! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm very happy to announce that in addition to my professorship in Anthropology at Harvard I have also joined the faculty of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology! I'm looking forward to working with my HEB colleagues on microbiome and human evolution!

For those of you in the Boston area, I'll be hosting a Q&A after a special screening of the documentary film Hunt for the Oldest DNA at the MIT Museum on December 3 at 6pm. Tickets to the screening and after show are available here: mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/sel...

And another big study from our lab out this month on exploring the potential of dental calculus to shed light on past human migrations! A huge thank you to all of our collaborators throughout Oceania and Island Southeast Asia who made this research possible! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really excited to share our collaborative work on the rise and transformation of Bronze Age pastoralists in the Caucasus! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Mark your calendars for the Ancient Pathogens Genomics International Symposium on April 12-13, 2025 in Juriquilla, Mexico!

Spring conference season is coming! I'll be a featured speaker at this year's Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) 25th Anniversary Meeting in Marco Island, Florida, February 23-26, 2025! www.agbt.org/home/home/ge...

Big congrats to visiting Master’s student Aurore Galtier, who received top marks on her MS thesis about ancient dental calculus at the École Normale Supériure de Lyon. She has won a PhD scholarship to study sediment DNA from caves at the MPI-EVA. Congratulations Aurore!